John Walton

Stage Director, Dramaturg & AD of touring theatre company Foolish Hope. He/him 🏳️‍🌈🇯🇪

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

Hidden behind election news, @GoldsmithsUoL has shamefully made 97 arts and humanities staff redundant.

Will the new Labour government save these jobs and unique courses - many of which are offered nowhere else in the world?

https://t.co/Df6m3cXrcu

[Mark Ravenhill @MarkRavenhill2]

My second 101 Exercises for Playwrights newsletter is ready to go. You can read and subscribe using the link. 'Exercise 1'. https://t.co/j6rBr8RHSY

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

Hi @Pret - how come my UK subscription doesn’t work in Ireland or France?

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

An illuminating, timely and deeply troubling dive into the state of the UK’s democracy today. Loved how Sarah Woods and ⁦@EmmaHarding01⁩ dramatised Alexis de Tocqueville’s 19th-century musings on America and weaved them into present-day interviews. https://t.co/NpjbrOsZb2

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

NEWS
UK spends more financing inequality in favour of rich than rest of Europe, report finds

If you think the Tories have robbed your family blind....you're right....they have.

Equality Trust report this week proves it, inc

🔹Richest 1% in the UK are paying the lowest taxes of such a group in any large European country
🔹 Britain in the 1970s was one of the most equal of rich countries. Today, it is the second most UNEQUAL, after the US.
🔹 UK spends more than anywhere else in Europe subsidising the cost of structural inequality in favour of the rich
🔹Inequality has made UK more unhealthy, unhappy and unsafe than our more equal peers
🔹UK has shorter healthy working lives, poorer education systems, more crime and less happy societieies
🔹UK society structured to allow massive profiteering for the richest at the expense of everyone else
🔹Massive regional disparities and leaving the UK vulnerable to shocks and recessions.
🔹90% of all national assets and infrastructure are now privately owned making Britain one of the most heavily privately and narrowly owned economies among rich countries.

And it has accelerated since 2010

https://t.co/oRO5YSZqA7

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

Inequality, austerity, and so much else wrong with the UK right now is a political choice

https://t.co/5aCpcz4PjR

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

@CF_Travel_News I can't switch my booking online, I've been on hold for over an hour, and the live chat function on your website isn't working. Condor absolutely useless as ever.

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

Harrowing drama from the ever brilliant team of Linda Marshall Griffiths and @Nadia_Molinari. All the horror and power of Euripides wrenched right into the present day. Incredible work.

https://t.co/Z1uPSLx9Lx

[YourMate @YourMateUnion]

Happy #SocialistSunday one and all and follow and retweet each other to help grow the movement

[bruce dessau @brucedes]

£25,000 Victoria Wood Playwriting Prize Launched https://t.co/zcg9Hxx9RL

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"The only demonstrations that really work are disruptive ones."

@GaryLineker believes disruptive climate protesters could be considered "heroes" if the world takes action against the climate crisis, and says "it's very worrying" people are being arrested for protesting.

[Angel Exit Theatre 💙 @angelexit]

Look at this splendid new toooB suit being crafted by Naomi Oppenheim ready for our run @southbankcentre next week.

#toooB #babytheatre #halftermlondon

https://t.co/AgoJXQNB2e

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

First British tourists of the summer season are here. Middle aged couple with a caravan that had a UKIP sticker in the window. Assumed I spoke English, asked for directions, I replied in French. The woman tutted, rolled her eyes and said,
"They don't even try to speak English"

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

Londoners! Get yourself to this beautiful play, it’s absolutely stunning!

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

Four goals clawed back in regular time, go behind again in extra time, get one back, and then win on penalties!!!! WOW!!! What a game!!!! Haven’t had this much fun being a @swfc fan since the early 90s!!! 😅

[Sheffield Wednesday @swfc]

WE BELIEVED!!!!!

[Mark Ravenhill @MarkRavenhill2]

https://t.co/2cqPzUTOcn
Catch up with my 101 notes on playwriting here - novelists and screenwriters have also found them useful. Feel free to share the link. Thank you

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

@jakeyoh It’s brilliant!! Well, was at the Young Vic at least!!

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

For those of us who geek out over evolution… this is very cool…

https://t.co/L6QYYR59qj

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

@jensomelunn @theCentre Thank YOU!! And all the team involved!! 😊

[John Walton @FoolishJW]

Loved loved loved Es & Flo by @jensomelunn @theCentre - complex, layered, and beautifully acted, with a story that seamlessly spans generations and social divides. Just a wonderful piece of new writing. Huge congratulations to everyone involved!